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Lord Kitchener's pointing finger and commanding moustached face is one of the most enduring images of World War I. It first appeared on the back of a magazine and was plastered on recruitment posters ...

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four envisions an ever-watching, all-seeing, psychologically invasive civil state of the near future. Its physical embodiment, “a man of about forty-five, with a heavy ...

The image of British war minister Lord Kitchener's index finger unsettlingly aimed at the viewer remains immediately recognisable 100 years after its design. Still regularly copied in advertising, it ...

WHILE Gladstone was still alive,Lord Rosebery once remarked that it would require a syndicate to write his biography when the time arrived. The Great Commoner was in the habit of riding so many horses ...

Developers have been granted permission to transform the former home of Lord Kitchener into a swanky holiday house. Hotel bosses are set to renovate run-down Flint Cottage on the sprawling Broome Park ...

A recruitment poster of the stern-eyed Lord Kitchener has become a defining image of World War One. A clever illustrator's psychological trickery has spawned a thousand imitations, writes Adam Eley.